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Having received my first 2014 Championship query email from a potential Canadian competitor I came across the following blog which contains a nice account of last year's Championships written mainly by Aaron Chan as well as an ongoing series of interesting handcrafted puzzles. I don't believe that w...

Yes, that cheered me up. I found it too hard to get to page two to submit the rest of the answers... but then I was laughing too much. Also, I spent too long looking at the examples in case there was a catch in the real questions. Ah, never mind, when they run it again next year I'll be ready.

The results are available. Neil 4th, David 11th, Tom 15th, and Liane 24th of 30 competitors. https://www.facebook.com/105959252797784/photos/gm.273174829516450/677272728999764/?type=1&theater Well done everybody - excellent performances all round. Neil missed out on a podium place by a fraction (ouc...

A big thank you to Alan for creating our championship web site. This evening I had the pleasure of informing the WPF Board that uk2014.org is up and running and that we are now open for business. We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible to London this summer. (this is my 200th post an...

I had a most enjoyable day at Bletchley Park. I had been there before, but the benefit of a guided tour of the site brought the whole place alive in a way no normal visit can. The special part of the tour was to one of the original and massive concrete buildings (over 50,000 sq ft with multiple wing...

I visited the event last night and was able to drop off flyers to each team together with a spoken overview (discussion in some cases) of the UKPA's activities. There were five tables (four to five people on each team) and the event was organised by Dan. Dan believes that there is massive potential ...

I was going to be in London tomorrow afternoon, and have just arranged something for tomorrow evening that finishes at 7:15pm (and not far away!) - so perfect timing! I will take some of the fliers that Emma produced (thanks).

Do you know that you can compare your solutions move by move with up to three others simultaneously! It is an excellent way to see how Sai and MellowMelon (say) compare with each other in terms of solving order (and speed), compared with ourselves... Poetry in Motion. I have also been a bit glib hit...

I can't see us commenting after six months unless there was a really spectacular puzzle (or two...). I know that we are not allowed to discuss but if we wrote and said that all UK puzzle members would submit no later than two weeks (deadline plus one week to allow for emergencies), then it would be ...

Really enjoyed it. No errors, and annoyingly a 20 pointer (LITS) that I couldn't get the answer in properly as the time disappeared. Second Dickoon's comments that there was a sense of achievement as puzzles were solvable in fair time (according to their marks) and possible to submit solutions throu...

Dickoon I got wrapped up in things and only submitted three answers, one incorrect so you'll be pleased to know that the support has support... Mainly writing to say that it was refreshing to see such a wide range of new puzzles although the absence of the instruction booklet until only ? hours befo...

You have mentioned that you want to book a table at the Travel Lodge at the Airport to eat. Have all other competitors booked there to stay? Otherwise, I would have thought that we should eat near the venue: there should be a good choice of eateries in Solihull itself.

Or I could fetch you from the most convenient station or even your home if you are contemplating a bike ride - you can't be that far away. I like unusual journeys and will have to check out of my hotel and drive to St. Johns anyway, so it is not a problem I will just be on the road a little earlier.

Dear Yaf, Kickstarter is a commercial project. You have signed up to this forum without any introduction and expect us to play a game by your rules. If you had studied the forum you would see that we do not promote commercial activities on this site. Also, if this isn't commercial, then perhaps it w...

Oops - in respect of last week. Totally overlooked the BOLDED requirement for only unique scores to count somewhere in the course of the week, and didn't even pick it up on submission... Didn't submit this week, but spent a good few hours playing around with Eight Equations. A beautiful problem wher...

Question 1 I didn't have time to optimise this, but I got as far as recognising the different constraints of the planned routes vs the unplanned routes and the 4,3,4 scenario. My worst score - submitted just to enter - only 104 Question 2 Lots of degrees of freedom on this one. Did the min-max const...